Robin Edgar must have some difficulty reading. Either that, or he can’t think beyond a rigid and immature ‘black-and-white’ mentality. This is evident in his constantly accusing UU minister and blogger Cynthia Cain of ‘demonizing and marginalizing Republicans.’ As he asserts in his latest blog post:

Rev. Cynthia P. Cain never said all mean people are Republicans; what she said was all Republicans were mean people…

Mister Edgar, she did not even say that. She called out Republican Party leaders of mean-spirited and uncivil rhetoric. Show us, please, where she said that all Republicans are mean people.

No surprise, however, that Robin Edgar stoops to such slander. He can only think in the extremes of idealization and devaluation (and more of the latter than the former). Say something he doesn’t like, and he resorts to hyperbole and sweeping generalization to devalue and denigrate you. Especially when you are an ordained UU minister.

Nor will it help if, after making a questionable blog post, you decide to remove it. No, then he accuses you of the manufactured transgression of ‘memory-holing,’ and treats you exactly the same as if you had left the blog post up – obsessively repeating the same accusations, insults, attacks and denigrations over and over and over and over and over again and again and again and again and again.

Mister Edgar, it doesn’t matter if you ‘paraphrase’ Horace Greeley. Defamation is still defamation. Distorting the facts goes against the UU principle of a free and responsible search for meaning and truth which you so claim to uphold. More’s the pity that you refuse to see how unhealthy, counterproductive and dysfunctional your fixations, perseverations and angry rants really are. We again implore you to seek professional help, as so many have recommended.

Once again, Robin Edgar has stooped to new lows in his unending lashing out against Unitarian Universalists. This time, the current target of his obsessive rage is UUA President Reverend Peter Morales, first with a post insinuating (in his lame yet outrageous style of ‘parody and satire’) that Morales has ‘demonized and marginalized’ a whole host of groups to which Mister Edgar claims the right to speak on behalf of. He gives no evidence that Morales has indeed done anything to deserve such a comment, but this is par for the course with his previous behaviour, seeking any and every excuse to bash and belittle UUs in a desperate attempt to inflate himself.

But it is the post following this which is even more offensive. In response to Morales’ observations regarding the Maricopa County sheriff’s office under Joe Arpaio, Robin Edgar labels Morales the ‘token Latino Hispanic President of the UUA’, further accusing Morales of hypocrisy because, as far as Robin Edgar is concerned, the UUA does not have enough Hispanics in its ranks to speak the truth in love regarding racism.

There is an enormous difference between the UUA, which has been making efforts to deal with issues of race and ethnicity, and a sheriff’s department with appallingly disproportionate statistics for its community (both in the lack of Hispanic officers and the high number of Hispanics arrested by the department). But to lower himself to such an offensive personal attack against Morales only shows just how far this man is willing to go to draw attention to himself, and to artificially prop himself by tearing others down.

Mister Edgar, if the only way you can make yourself feel worth and dignity is to lash out at others, call them names, and resort to racism and slander, then you have no claim to feel outraged or indignant when the target of your endless ire either refuse to respond, or express how you have hurt and demeaned them. How dare you attempt to make yourself the judge of who lives up to UU ideals, when you yourself go out of your way to do the opposite.